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TOP Chinese Technology Innovation Society states that Yan Wentao, a partner at Hillhouse Capital, is expected to join DeepSeek as CFO, with an anticipated start date soon.DeepSeek has begun preparations for its Sci-Tech Innovation Board IPO, with CITIC Securities currently conducting due diligence, but both parties have not yet signed a formal listing advisory agreement. DeepSeek hopes to initiate the IPO process this year.Yan Wentao is a post-90s partner at Hillhouse Capital, responsible for technology investments for a long time, with publicly disclosed investment projects including ByteDance, MiniMax, and Zhipu AI. DeepSeek currently does not have a CFO or a formal investor relations team.

According to foreign media reports, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix rejected a prepayment proposal for electricity bills put forward by the Korea Electric Power Corporation. The proposal originally required the two companies to pay electricity bills in advance to fund the construction of the power grid for a new technology cluster. Utility companies across Asia are struggling to keep up with the growing demand from the semiconductor and artificial intelligence industries due to tight funding.The Korea Electric Power Corporation's proposal is estimated by local media to total 250 trillion won, equivalent to five years' worth of electricity bills. A spokesperson for the Korea Electric Power Corporation stated via text message, "The two companies ultimately rejected the proposal from the Korea Electric Power Corporation." According to local media reports, the two chip manufacturers are concerned about the uncertainty of whether the current semiconductor boom can be sustained over the next five years.

Bonk Guy (Unipcs) posted that Fomo is expected to complete integration within a few days after the launch of the Arc chain, which changes its short-term judgment on Arc. He stated that builders related to Arc have recently contacted early on-chain traders multiple times, indicating their desire to generate early traffic for the new chain through Meme coin activities.Bonk Guy believes that the main opportunities on-chain this cycle are still concentrated in Robinhood, BNB, and Solana, and does not think Arc will become the next mainstream chain. However, he pointed out that Fomo has not yet integrated Hyperliquid, Tron, or TON, all of which have seen Meme assets with market capitalizations exceeding 100 million dollars. Therefore, if Arc connects with Fomo early after its launch, it could bring short-term trading opportunities. He revealed that he has purchased the native token LONG of the main launch platform Long, as well as the top three Meme coins on that platform.His core judgments include: Fomo will integrate Arc, Arc is actively attracting early on-chain traders, and Arc may learn from Robinhood's path of launching ecological growth through Meme activities. Bonk Guy also emphasized that the layout related to Arc is a short-term high-risk experiment and reminded to currently avoid using trading bots like Basedbot and GMGN to prevent significant slippage due to routing to incorrect liquidity pools.

Jiang Zhuoer, the founder of the Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), stated that BTC has fallen as expected, with $76,500 being a key support level (the lower bound of the ascending channel, as well as the Fibonacci 23.6% retracement from the rise of about $57,000 to $82,000). If it falls below $76,500, the decline may accelerate, and the next focus will be whether the previous low of $75,500 can hold.He previously mentioned two possible scenarios: a) a rebound before reaching $75,000, which would make it more likely to rise back to $80,000, or even up to the high resistance area of $83,000 to $84,000, before starting a major correction; b) if it effectively breaks below $75,000, it will trigger a correction corresponding to the original rise from $64,000, expected to reach $70,000 to $72,000, before entering the next phase of a bull market. Jiang Zhuoer believes that the voting on the "Cryptocurrency Market Structure Act" (i.e., the CLARITY Act) next week and news from the Federal Reserve may become key catalysts, thus maintaining a neutral position of full BTC short positions + full ETH spot positions.

"BTC OG Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin released a market perspective stating that Bitcoin bulls are currently in an unfavorable position, with BTC continuing to hover above $76,500.Garrett Jin expressed that he is not optimistic about the current prolonged bottoming market, believing that the longer the consolidation period, the more likely BTC is to break below the $76,500 support and further seek lower support levels, rather than immediately reversing.He pointed out that if Bitcoin wants to show a stronger trend again, it needs to at least regain and maintain above $78,300.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the LSK project's associated address deposited 3.29 million tokens to Binance 5 hours ago, valued at 3.79 million USD; this deposit occurred after the first rapid decline of LSK (from 2 USD to 1 USD), and shortly after the deposit, a second wave of plummet occurred (from 1.22 USD to 0.7 USD), now rebounding to 1.17 USD.

Robinhood's on-chain stock meme coin issuance platform Long.xyz founder Nate stated that after the launch of the new Pre-IPO feature, the platform has added approximately 10,000 asset issuance projects.Nate estimates that without token code locking and client issuance quantity limits, the platform's daily issuance could reach 100,000, at which point the platform may be more utilized by bots, making it difficult for ordinary users to filter through the large number of new assets, potentially further fueling FOMO trading, chasing volume, and data inflation.Nate indicated that LONG will continuously adjust issuance limits based on demand changes and plans to add an asset discovery filter to help users filter projects based on parameters such as whale holding ratios, asset longevity, and antifragility, while aggregating liquidity and capital flow to assets that perform well and have uniqueness within the ecosystem.The team is currently monitoring suspicious activities across all trading pairs and has not identified any major issues, but is prepared with new risk control parameters. If it is found that price manipulation behavior is due to coordinated actions rather than natural market activities, the team can quickly implement relevant restrictions.

Jiang Zhuoer, the founder of Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), stated that the most likely scenario for Bitcoin is to first sweep up to the liquidation zone at the 76k high, with ETH simultaneously testing around the 2665 liquidation. After clearing 76k, there are two possible subsequent scenarios: a) a rebound before hitting 75k, which would make it more likely to rise back to 80k, or even touch the high resistance area of 83~84k, before starting a major correction; b) if it effectively breaks below 75k, it will trigger a correction corresponding to the previous rise from 64k, expected to reach 70~72k, before entering the next phase of the bull market.Jiang Zhuoer believes that the upcoming voting on the bill and news from the Federal Reserve may become key catalysts, thus maintaining a neutral position with full BTC short positions and full ETH spot holdings.

The central banks of the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom will announce their monetary policy decisions this week, with the market focusing on whether the Federal Reserve will initiate its first interest rate hike in three years.Iran and Gulf countries are negotiating shipping management in the Strait of Hormuz to address high crude oil prices.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated, "In the past two days, expectations of interest rate hikes have emerged, leading to a divergence in market trends. Since negative news has appeared, there are two possible scenarios: one is a real interest rate hike, which would lead to a short-term drop below 76,000, followed by a period of consolidation before rising again. The other is no interest rate hike, which would lead to continued upward movement. Regardless, it's best to trade spot without leverage."During an exchange at a business school in Shenzhen, Yi Lihua pointed out several opportunities in the next three years: one is mainstream BTC/ETH spot trading around four times, aiming for ten times with effort in swing trading. Another is trading infrastructure, which still presents hundredfold opportunities, as the core demand of blockchain is trading. The third is the IPOs defined by CZ, where stocks and IPOs are brought on-chain, resulting in truly high-quality assets that were once white paper tokens bidding farewell completely.

According to Bitcoin.com, an independent Bitcoin miner mining through Braiins Solo successfully mined a block with a height of 966351, receiving the full block reward of 3.147 BTC, worth approximately $245,000.This is the first time in nearly 40 days that an independent miner has successfully mined a block on the Bitcoin network. The last occurrence was on August 2, when a miner mining through Solo CKPool received a reward of 3.1569 BTC. Currently, the five major mining pools—Foundry, Antpool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, and Spiderpool—collectively control about 78.31% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate, making the probability of independent miners successfully mining a block relatively low.

According to Bitcoin.com, an independent Bitcoin miner mining through Braiins Solo successfully mined a block with a height of 966351, receiving the entire block reward of 3.147 BTC, worth approximately $245,000.This is the first time in nearly 40 days that an independent miner has successfully mined a block on the Bitcoin network. The last occurrence was on August 2, when a miner mining through Solo CKPool received a reward of 3.1569 BTC. Currently, the five major mining pools—Foundry, Antpool, F2Pool, ViaBTC, and Spiderpool—collectively control about 78.31% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate, making it relatively low for independent miners to successfully mine blocks.

Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison has joined the nonprofit organization Manifund. Manifund co-founder Austin Chen stated that Ellison will be responsible for developing the organization’s donation platform and enhancing its charitable work. Ellison has been on a trial basis at the organization since July, transitioned to full-time in August, and has been posting work updates under the alias "Carol."Ellison pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of the FTX exchange in 2022, which resulted in billions of dollars in customer losses. She cooperated with prosecutors and testified against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Ellison is set to begin serving a two-year sentence in November 2024 and will be released early in January 2026 for cooperating with the investigation.Chen stated in a post, "I believe in redemption. Caroline has acknowledged her mistakes, is working to repay creditors, and has served time in prison. I hope the world can recognize that too." Ellison expressed excitement about her new position, apologized for her past actions, and thanked Austin for giving her a second chance, stating that he judges her based on her current work performance rather than her past. According to its website, Manifund focuses on artificial intelligence safety and effective altruism projects.

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance's Bitcoin reserves have exceeded 693,000 coins, an increase of about 77,000 coins since late April, accounting for approximately 30% of the total Bitcoin reserves of major exchanges.Bitcoin is currently positioned below the long-term holder supply zone between $83,000 and $85,000, with new accumulation support forming around $75,000. If this support is lost, the next level of concern will be $75,000. Binance had previously announced plans to invest $1 billion to allocate approximately 15,000 Bitcoins, and factors related to the SAFU fund and the Coldcard incident may also influence some holders' custody choices.

Goldman Sachs stated that the renewed rise in expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate hikes may trigger traders to unwind their hedge positions, leading to a more severe adjustment in gold prices than usual.

The founder of the Liebit mining pool, Jiang Zhuoer, showcased his position combination of "making money even in the wrong direction." He previously stated that he sold 100% BTC positions at $77,226. Using the price reference of 8:29:47, his full BTC short position lost 1.95% from $77,226 to $78,730.74, the full ETH spot gained 5.74% from $2,467.61 to $2,609.31, and the 5% position in BNC spot gained 0.51% from $4.81 to $5.305, with a total profit of approximately 4.3%.

According to on-chain data monitoring, as the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum rise, the three long positions of Brother Ma Ji, Huang Licheng, have all turned from losses to profits, with an overall floating profit of 5.806 million USD and an investment return rate of 110%:The 25x leveraged Ethereum long position is valued at over 90 million USD, with a floating profit of 5.032 million USD;The 40x leveraged Bitcoin long position is valued at over 41.35 million USD, with a floating profit of 650,000 USD;The 10x leveraged HYPE long position is valued at over 5.633 million USD, with a floating profit of 122,000 USD.

Circle announced that it will stop supporting USDC and CCTP V1 on the Noble blockchain, and Noble will not connect to CCTP V2. Starting from October 13, 2026, Circle Mint will cease minting new USDC on Noble, while redemptions will remain open until January 12, 2027.Thereafter, the USDC contracts and CCTP routing on Noble will be fully suspended. Circle advises users to migrate their USDC on Noble to other supported networks before the deadline and will take a snapshot of the remaining balances at the time of suspension, initiating a manual redemption process on January 13, 2027.

Institutional digital asset custodian Zodia Custody's CEO Julian Sawyer announced his resignation and will take on the role of strategic advisor. In a memo sent to employees on September 10, Sawyer stated that Standard Chartered Bank's acquisition of Zodia Custody's custody business and the establishment of Zodia Solutions provided an appropriate time for him to hand over daily leadership responsibilities, and he will continue to be closely involved in company affairs.According to the memo, Zodia Custody's Chief Revenue Officer Richard Clark will lead the company’s transition to Standard Chartered Bank and will be responsible for the custody business; current executives Craig Perrin and Anoosh Arevshatian will be responsible for the establishment of Zodia Solutions. A spokesperson for Zodia Custody confirmed this personnel change. Zodia Custody is an institutional-grade digital asset custodian based in London, supported by Standard Chartered Bank and other banks, providing regulated asset custody, wallet infrastructure, staking, and over-the-counter settlement services for financial institutions, asset management companies, and others.This arrangement differs from previous plans. In May of this year, SC Ventures announced that Sawyer would serve as CEO of Zodia Solutions after the acquisition was completed. Standard Chartered Bank stated in May that Zodia's shareholders and noteholders had accepted its non-binding acquisition offer, and the custody business would be integrated into the bank's financing and securities services division, while the infrastructure platform would be spun off into Zodia Solutions, which is under SC Ventures.